After a major disaster, economic collapse or an all out war, modern medicine is going to be tough to come by. You won’t be able to run to the pharmacy when you have a headache or a fever. You won’t be able to get a prescription to fight an infection or ointments to help you heal quicker. It is a scary thought for some, but not all. People who have been studying ancient medicine know that our ancestors managed to survive without western medicine. Native Americans lived off the land and managed to cure a number of ailments without ever...

If you remember grandma giving you some weird concoction when you went to visit and complained of a cold or a sore muscle, you were lucky. Many of us have long believed grandma was a little senile or refused to get with the times. Her remedies for just about anything you could think of left many of us smiling and nodding and opening the medicine cabinet as soon as we got home. Our grandparents learned those old fashioned remedies from their parents and their parents learned it from theirs and so on. If a remedy has been passed along for...

Good medical services are expensive, which can make it a little hard for people to get the services they need, when they need them. But that’s nothing compared to the problem with getting medical services in the wake of a disaster. When that happens, medical services are overwhelmed, supplies are short and even getting to a doctor can become a major problem. If you can’t get to a doctor, what do you do? I suppose that we could just let people die, but that doesn’t seem to me like a very viable alternative. It becomes even less of one when...

Trees are such a normal part of our life today, we don’t typically think twice about them. We look at them, think they are pretty or take a minute to enjoy the shade they provide, but looking at them as a means of survival is not typical. After life gets shaken up and everything changes, trees will take on a whole new meaning. Trees will be valuable parts of our survival after a collapse. When the grocery stores have empty shelves and the pharmacy is wiped out, you need a backup source of food and medicine. What’s that got to...

There is a lot of talk about prepping to live after a huge event that tends to center around stockpiling food, water and guns. Some preppers do put some emphasis on stockpiling medical supplies as well. Others will attend training classes to learn from the experts about how to do basic first aid. However, these scenarios assume you are at home with your medical supplies and can take care of an injury until help arrives. Prepping for a medical emergency must include a contingency plan. What if your medical supplies are depleted or you are out in the wilderness without...